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More recently doctors were interested in wall paper under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
After that the record became really distinguished, rising to "Home Secretary, 1922-24"; but the correspondents had read enough to decided that they could not long be snubbed by a man whose father had been Rector of Weston-under-Lizard...
...this scolding Bishop Manning based upon hasty, sensationalized newspaper accounts of two addresses by clerics. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, last week made one of these addresses to students at the 49th commencement of Smith College at Northampton, Mass. Rector Henry Lewis of St. Andrew's Church, Ann Arbor, Mich, (site of the University of Michigan) made the other before the Protestant Episcopal Church Congress at San Francisco a fortnight ago. Each man made earnest plea for the revaluing of moral (ethical) standards, and in each case newspapers "played up" their comments...
...Rector Henry Lewis had said: "The introduction of science is the outstanding fact of our time, and in morals science has created an entirely new moral situation. For when you have introduced contraceptions you have changed your moral situation. You have done away with that old, but very effective weapon which has deterred many a person from going beyond the accepted moral code-fear of consequences. That fear no longer rests in the breast of any scientifically educated man or woman, and along with the passing of that fear is also going a vast amount of ignorance and misinformation upon...
...Caesar thrice offered emperor's wreath, no Macbeth thrice foredoomed to kingship ever proved so obdurate against election as has Dr. Horace Percy Silver, thrice designated bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thrice scornful of the honor. Dr. Silver is rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan. He is not to be confused with Jesse Forrest Silver, Free Methodist clergyman of Los Angeles, or with Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland rabbi...